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New Relic recently released Real User Monitoring, which allows you to measure your page load time (and much more) across browsers, operating systems, and geography, for users across the globe. If you want to see how fast your page is loading client-side, New Relic can now help with that as well. How fast is your web app for your users?

Rails 3.1.0 has been released! Lots of fancy features including: the
asset pipeline, reversible migrations, HTTP streaming, jQuery by default,
Active Record identity map, and much more! Make sure to read the release
notes.

When you recognize the need for an object that does not appear
to fit within the constructs that backbone provides, don’t force it into
one. And when you want to take advantage of backbone’s events, just use
backbone’s events.

ActiveConfiguration is a Rails engine that exposes a generic
settings store to ActiveRecord models. Made for very configurable
applications, it allows you to avoid implementing specific ways to store
settings for each model that needs such a configuration.

An administrative Snafu combined with travel to hurricane-tormented North Carolina combined to create the late publication of this podcast. Undeterred, we bring you the news of Steve's resignation, a few JRuby stories, a Guard howto, a new content management system, a few useful tools for dealing with ActiveRecord performance and reporting, and a great resource for Sass beginners and experts alike.